e.g.
5V"g\7`Qv1Sc]aV&Q4a6#bW>SbU!f_4V1QvPaUe 5Q!c b
Something else is "helping" you.
MD5 output does not look like that.
MD5 is 32 hex chars, 0-9 and a-f
I have not tried passing MD5 values out to the browser though, it may be the browser "helping". I use MD5 extensively on my spamwhack site.
Hard to demo though, it's all transparent to the user, except when queries come in using wget, where they are sending me MD5 data. That works fine too, leading me even more to suspect that the broswser is getting in the way.
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